SHANGHAI (AP) -- Another 100,000 people may have to move away from China's Three Gorges Dam due to the risk of disastrous landslides and bank collapses around the reservoir of the world's biggest ...

The Three Gorges Dam in China is a structure so huge that it controls one of the world's most powerful rivers—and even slightly slows down the Earth’s rotation. It was built to generate electricity, ...

When we talk about feats of engineering, very few megastructures on Earth rival the sheer scale of China's Three Gorges Dam. It's located in Hubei province, spanning the mighty Yangtze River, and it's ...

Explore the Three Gorges Dam, the world’s most powerful dam, which has a reservoir so massive it even affects the Earth’s ...

As the waters of the reservoir rise and submerge their homes and fields, 1.3 million residents of the area are being relocated by the Chinese... Relocated Three Gorges Residents Face Challenges The ...

After deciding to turn down a government travel offer and take a lone journey to the reservoir and dam, NPR's Anthony Kuhn discovers that the... Just as I was about to set off on my voyage down the ...

The Chinese government has approved the construction of a massive hydroelectric power plant over the world's largest dam to be built over the sacred Yarlung Tsangpo River in the Tibet autonomous ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - As China counts the costs of its most punishing flood season in more than three decades, the role played by the massive and controversial Three Gorges Dam - designed to help tame ...

China has approved what is set to become the biggest hydropower dam complex in the world, capable of producing nearly three times as much power as the current record-holder, the Three Gorges Dam. The ...

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